Conhecimento e (re)conhecimento na educação popular : uma reflexão sobre a experiência educacional da ABHP

Abstract

This paper is the fruit of a research conduced during my period of Masterhip in Education, titled: “Knowledge and (ac)knowledgment in Popular Education: a reflexion about the educational experience of ABHP”. It consists of an investigation aimed to understand how knowledge and (ac)knowledgment articulate in the constitution of social subjects and authors, since from my point of view and the point of view of various authors, knowledge and (ac)knowledgment are inter-related dimensions, inseparable and dynamic, and referent to the mutual construction of identities, implying in the own conscience and in the conscience of the other person as an alterity (otherness) The investigation occurred at the premises of the Brazilian Association of Popular Homeopathy – ABHP, listening to the points of view expressed by popular educators about the subject of the research and the significances of such educational process for the life of each one and for the community of which they participate. Based on a qualitative-phenomenological research (BIKLEN & BOGDAN, 1994) and on the chosen instruments, I investigated documents, gathered and analyzed statements, held a focal group with the subjects of the research, made observations and orientations during the extension course and, starting from these data, I constructed an historical profile of the Association and the subjects of this research. The theoretical revision concerning the Social Movements, the Popular Education, the Knowledge and (Ac)knowledgment and the Constitution of Subjects were determined in order to establish a counterpoint between these theories and the concrete and deliberate doings of the group under investigation. Lastly I present some (in)comprehensions of what was possible to experience during the research, adopting a look distanced but not disconnected from what has been collectively constructed. In this paper can be found significant reasons appointing to the necessity of promoting even more spaces as the one researched, so that the production and circulation of knowledge and (ac)knowledgment can happen and consequently give effect to the democratization of Society.